| JOB TITLE: Registered Nurse (Inpatient) Emergency Department LOCATION: Jersey Shore Hospital DEPARTMENT: Emergency Department WORK SCHEDULE: Nights WORK TYPE: Full Time Description: The Professional Nurse is responsible for the supervision, direction, implementation and evaluation of quality patient care during the assigned work hours. Essential Functions: Management of patient care in the Emergency Room according to the nursing process to include assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Actively participates in the promotion of quality patient care. Leadership abilities are demonstrated in functioning as a professional role model, consumer relations and communications skills, problem solving and decision making and assistance in orienting and training personnel. Collaborates with other healthcare providers to coordinate the patient’s plan of care.Assumes responsibility for ensuring continued professional growth. Other Functions: Participates in the Emergency Room QPI plan. Serves on Hospital committees and participates in committee evaluation processes as necessary. Experience: Two (2) years previous experience in Medical-Surgical and/or previous outpatient experience preferred. Education & Training: Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing. Licensure, Certification, Registration & Evaluation: Current Pennsylvania license as a registered professional nurse (RN). BCLS certification required. ACLS certification required within 6 months after employment. PALS certification required within 6 months of employment. CEN preferred. Other Requirements: Required to work flexible shifts and hours in order to accommodate the needs of patients on a daily basis. Employee performs within the prescribed limits of the hospital’s Ethic’s and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, or, upward through the chain of command, Director of Legal Compliance or hospital hotline. The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. ABOUT GEISINGER: Geisinger is a physician-led health system comprised of approximately 30,000 employees, including nearly 1,600 employed physicians, 13 hospital campuses, two research centers, and a 583,000-member health plan Geisinger is nationally recognized for innovative practices and quality care. Geisinger serves more than 3 million people in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania and also in southern New Jersey with the addition of National Malcolm Baldridge Award recipient AtlantiCare, A member of Geisinger. In 2017, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine became the newest member of the Geisinger Family. We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.* Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. For more information, visit www.geisinger.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. | 
